"Q" Analysis
This magazine is called "Q" and the single letter which is the name shows connotations of "simplicity" and youth. The main story in the middle of the page with other smaller stories shown to the left of the page with some pictures and text and it’s in columns to show what they are about. The magazine has the main article/story placed in the middle of the front cover showing its high importance to the reader and this is shown by the much larger image complete with a much larger font size,the colour of the font isb red and black, the style of the font is quite bold and large which helps to link to the target audience of teenagers and also older people from the ages of 21+ who are into the pop and some alternative genres of music.
The front cover displays the 5 men who consist of the hit band "Take That" who are all bundled on top of each other all with large grins on there faces which shows them to be happy and suggests that this story is a positive one for the band and a positive one for the fans too. There all wearing black leather jackets showing them to be appealing with the yoinger generation as well as the older because originally they were around in the 1990s. Along with the positive feel to the main article, the headline says "Take That: Back for good?" which also suggests that the band are getting back together after a long absense from each other.
The contents page of this magazine is spread across two pages seemingly making it a double page spread aswell, it has images on both the left and the right hand side pages with some being smaller showing less importence and others being larger showing much more importence. It has columns on each side with text describing whats on the page and what is expected when you come to read it, it's complete with the same colours on the front cover that are re and white showing these two colours to be of high importence as it appears to be the magazines colours in the sense that you can recognise which particular music magazine this is.
The language used in this particular magazine is very informative in the sense that it seems to get straight to the point of a story thats being told in the magazine, therefore this informs readers that it's a magazine that anyone can read without boring themselves too quickly with a range of images aswell as text.
One of the double page spreads used in this magazine is the main story on Take That who are seemingly getting back together. The visual layout of this spread is that there is an image on the right hand side of the spread with interview columns used on the left hand side of the spread and at the bottom below the image, it also shows a timeline of Take That's hit songs on the bottom of the left hand side spread. The image shows the one of the members of Take That having an arm wrestle with the former member Robbie Williams who has re-joined the group, it shows Robbie to be winning which suggests that he's back for good and he's stronger than ever back with Take That suggesting certain connotations of "strength" but also some "violence".
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